Book-mark



(No Model.)

' R. S. PIGKETT.

BOOK MARK Patented Sept. 14, 1897.

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ATTURNEYJ RUFUS STARR PIOKETT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

BOOK-MARK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 589,907, datedSeptember 14, 1897.

Application filed April 9, 1897. Serial No. 631,357. (No model.)

To all whom it may conceive.-

Be it known that I, Runus STARR PICKEIT, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBook-Marks, of

t which the following is a full and complete specification, such as willenable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

This invention relates to book-marks, and the object thereof is toprovide an improvement of the device for which Letters Patent weregranted to me November 17, 1896, No. 571,453, and the object of which isto provide a bookmark of this class with a name-plate which is connectedtherewith; and with this and other objects in view the inventionconsists of the device hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which- Figure 1 is aplan view of an ordinary book, showing my improved bookmark placedtherein; Fig. 2, a section through the central fold of the book, andFig. 3 a partial section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the separate parts ofmy improvement are designated by the same letters of reference in eachof the views, and in the practice of my invention I provide a bookmarkwhichis composed of a piece of springwire, one end of which isflattened, as shown at A, and formed into a loop or hook, the longer armof which is corrugated or Wedgeshaped in form, as shown atB, and saidlonger arm B is formed into a loop C, with which is pivotally connectedat name-plate D.

The name-plate D is provided at one side with an oblong tubularattachment E, which is formed integrally with said plate or securedthereto and through which one side of the loop C passes, and saidname-plate may have cut, engraved, or otherwise formed thereon a loop Ois in the same plane with the hook A,

and in this device said loop (3 and the longer arm B of the device,together with the name plate D, rest in the fold of the book, as clearlyshown in the drawings, and the longer arm 13 is also flat.

The name-plate D serves as means by which the device may be handled ormanipulated, and it will be understood that said device may be connectedwith the book at any desired point, or may be used to separate any ofthe leaves thereof.

The book-mark is simple in construction and operation and comparativelyinexpensive, while being well adapted to accomplish the result for whichit is intended, and the spring action thereof is such as to hold it inplace at all times, whether the book be closed or opened, and it willnot therefore come out or be accidentally disconnected from the book.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 4 As an improved article of manufacture, a bookmark,comprising a blank of spring-Wire bent to form a yoke, consisting of ashort arm and a long arm, said short arm being flattened, and said longarm being provided at the end thereof with a loop; a name-plate providedat one side thereof with a tubular attachment adapted to engage saidloop, said long arm being corrugated, substantially as shown anddescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 5th day of April,1897.

RUFUS STARR PIOKETT.

Witnesses:

GEORGE E. OooLnY, WILLIAM M. DORAN.

